Summary:

 House Bill 335 (HB 335) enacts the Licensing Time Frames Transparency Act; requires the Construction Industries Division of the Regulation and Licensing Department and local agencies with expressly delegated authority for licensing and permitting to periodically publish a list of the time frames in which licenses, permits or other regulatory approvals have been finally acted upon or have remained pending without final agency action.  

Legislation Overview:

 House Bill 335 (HB 335) enacts the Licensing Time Frames Transparency Act (LTFTA) and provides definitions of terms such as “agency” (construction industries agency), “application”, “average pending time frame”, “final agency action,” and other related terms.

On or before the last day of January, April, July and October of each year, every agency must submit the following information to the Regulation and Licensing Department (Department) for publication on the Department's website: 

A. a list of each type of permission the agency is required or authorized to issue with reference to the statute or rule under which that type of permission is required or authorized; 
B. the number of final agency actions taken on each type of permission during the reporting period; 
C. the average time frame, median time frame and maximum time frame for each type of permission during the reporting period; 
D. the average pending time frame and maximum pending time frame for each type of permission; and 
E. the number of applications for each type of permission that were submitted prior to the end of the reporting period, but for which final agency action had not been taken as of the end of the reporting period. 



 

Current Law:

 Current law does not require reporting or publication of time frames for the Department’s licensing actions.